Agonal Perspectives on Nietzsche's Philosophy of Critical Transvaluation

"Nietzsche's strengths as a critic are widely acknowledged, but his peculiar style of critique is usually ignored as rhetoric, or dismissed as violent or simply incoherent. In this book, Nietzsche's concept of the agon or Wettkampf, a measured and productive form of conflict inspired...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Siemens, Herman, 1963- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter [2021]
Series:Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung ; Band 74.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745187806719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Art of Limited Warfare : Nietzsche's Hammer and the Need to Find a Limit in Negation
  • Nietzsche's Agon and the Transvaluation of Humanism
  • Performing the Agon : Towards an Agonal Model for Critical Transvaluation
  • The First Transvaluation of All Values: Nietzsche's Agon with Socrates in The Birth of Tragedy
  • Agonal Configurations in the Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen : The Problem of Origins, Originality and Mimesis in Genius and Culture (Nietzsche and Kant)
  • Of (Self-)Legislation, Life and Love
  • Law and Community in the Agon : Agonal Communities of Taste and Lawfulness without a Law
  • Nietzsche's Agon with Ressentiment : Towards a Therapeutic Reading of Critical Transvaluation (Nietzsche and Freud)
  • Umwertung : Nietzsche's 'War-Praxis' and the Problem of Yes-Saying and No-Saying in Ecce Homo.